Stanford has as promised launched the first betaversionen of its Folding@Home client for graphics circuits. Together with ATI it has developed a client for its latest Radeon-based graphics card; Radeon X1900. Even if the client is only referred to as a GPU client there is no support for any other circuits and to NVIDIA owners the future looks a bit uncertain. NVIDIA’s graphics card architecture is supposedly considerably worse when it comes to these kind of calculations and Stanford has announced that there is no timeplan for when it would release a possible NVIDIA-compatible client. So, first of all you need to have one of the latest graphics circuits from ATI, but there’s more to it.
Currently it seems that Catalyst 6.5 are the only drivers which works satisfactory together with Stanford’s Folding@Home client and at the same time you need at least DirectX 9.0c version 4.09.0000.0904. If you’re running both of these you can just go ahead and doanload the client at Stanford’s website and start folding. Hopefully we have some eager visitors who wants to share some performance figures and screenshots.
